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Artists Statement
Kiran Riaz is an artist with instinctive skills of detailed and intricate rendering. She, within and across her canvas, crafts her images with subtle yet intensive lines and tonalities. Her interest in the miniature painting, actually lead her to explore minimalism and its elements, within her visual surroundings. Kiran is obsessed with variation of line and its character. She usually knits the main area of her frames with soft and flowing lines with gradation of diverse shades of colors, which create depth and perspective in her paintings.
Sometimes, her lines are complex enough that the onlooker feels a visual illusion in her paintings. However, this illusion is as intentional as the whole painting should be. Kiran, with all the particulars of her unique painting style, has successfully come up as an emerging painter of the new generation. She is deeply rooted in the centuries old miniature tradition, while at the same time; her colours and themes are contemporary, and encompass modern day topics. Kiran is an artist who transforms conceptual elements into visionary image with her patience and determination to hatch an inimitable linear-texture on her vasili (Special multilayer Hand-made paper for miniature painting).
Keeping in mind her technique and her subject matter together, I could suggest that Kiran will excel as a painter who can assimilate the tradition with futuristic vision.
Nadeem Alam
Art-Critic & Art-Historian, Contributing in Various National and International Newspapers.
Lectrer Art-History at University College of Art & Design, PU Lahore.
Nature always creates sensation in me. I try to recreate that sensation into textures. As an artist, I’m obsessed with my paintings which actually cause my image to prevail across the smooth texture of the "Vasli". I talk through colors and textures. My imagination helps me to blend various textures into harmonized one.
